Improved harness-hook



@Him @time www MICHAEL unterm,` or COVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

-iLcttcrs Patent No. 104,646, dated Jun-e 2,1, 1870.

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` The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

` Llvirennnn REILLY, of Covington, Kenton'county,

i Kentueky,hwe inyented new end useful Hurness- Hook, of which the'following is n specification.

i Naturenn-I Objectsof the Invent/ion. My invention reletes .ton device for uniting' the `piu-ts of harness, `whichcombines the security of a.

buckle'wth the convenience und simplicity of u com `mon hook, und is` an'iinprovement on the harness 'hook nmdethe subject oi' n. patent to me, numbered General Description with `Rcfereneeto "the Drawing.

Figure l is a. perspectiveview of my impro-ved harness-hook, 'with `portion of the buck-strap und tru-ce.` Figures 2 und 3 nre n. vertical and n horizont-nl section ofthe sume.

Figure 4 shows the'hook proper detached. Figures 5, 6, end 7, are respectively :t perspective view and 'n verticrlund at horizontal section, representing n. modification of my invention.

Figure Sshovvssaid modified hook` detached.

Figure 9 represent-s zrforrn `of my,hookplate, ndnptcd for heavy harness.

My hook proper, C, hits `the represented elliptical form, ,with un' opening,"c`, in its rem' upper quarter, for the insertion of u. link `ofthc truce-Chinn or other purt of theihnrncss, and with :t fu'sit'orin pntlc, D, which `is confinedlto the buck-strep Z, or other piu't of' the harness, by menus of zt cztp, B, hnving'ea-rs, A, which vreceive -rivetsJJ` rw fr ,by which they are fastened to the sti-up. v I The rivets lr fr heilig below, :uid the rivets r r above the pintlc,.serve to hold the leather irrnly nguinst the renr yportion o' of the hook, so :is to hold the recnrved point 0 down, und thus both prevent theA Aaccidental escupe of the` link and the lentanglement of other parts of the harness. p

It will be seen that the hook und cup, respectively,

are simple castings, requiring no cores, nor :my filing or iinishing inputting them together, nor :my riveting,iexeept that required for securing the plate to the leztth er. v

Witnesses Gno. H. KNIGHT, JAMES H. LAYMAX. 

